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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6888815" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>As a DM I incorporate the party's backgrounds whenever I can do so. In fact, my most recently started campaign relied upon the background of each character to bring them all together as a party with a shared goal - the guild artisan chosen to represent the guild in brokering a deal with a neighboring nation; the noble of that neighboring nation asked to serve as a guide through the nation; the criminal son of a local noble sent to prove his worth for once, representing the nation in brokering the mentioned deal, or else be cut-off from the family name and wealth; the army officer tasked with the protection of the prior folk during their travels; and the exile of a far of nation volunteering aid in this endeavor as a favor to those that have aided him since his exile and as an opportunity to study a wider array of martial practices (his life's work being a treatise on the art of combat).</p><p></p><p>The campaign frequently involves one character or another directly engaging in some activity that is only present because of some element of their background.</p><p></p><p>As a player, I've only played the one character so far, but the background strongly informs both the character's personality and the particular way in which I choose to get things done - specifically that I use my Bad Reputation feature as often as I can find a reason (such as openly stealing a bag of salt, and not trying to diffuse a bar fight before it started because I knew I wasn't at risk of arrest for such minor crime as slapping around some punk that talked trash at me, and I used "Do you know who I am?" as a means to determine that the suspicious fellow offering my party help could be trusted, because no one that knows who I am and still wants to risk getting on my bad side is competent enough to consider a threat even if they do plan on a double-cross).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6888815, member: 6701872"] As a DM I incorporate the party's backgrounds whenever I can do so. In fact, my most recently started campaign relied upon the background of each character to bring them all together as a party with a shared goal - the guild artisan chosen to represent the guild in brokering a deal with a neighboring nation; the noble of that neighboring nation asked to serve as a guide through the nation; the criminal son of a local noble sent to prove his worth for once, representing the nation in brokering the mentioned deal, or else be cut-off from the family name and wealth; the army officer tasked with the protection of the prior folk during their travels; and the exile of a far of nation volunteering aid in this endeavor as a favor to those that have aided him since his exile and as an opportunity to study a wider array of martial practices (his life's work being a treatise on the art of combat). The campaign frequently involves one character or another directly engaging in some activity that is only present because of some element of their background. As a player, I've only played the one character so far, but the background strongly informs both the character's personality and the particular way in which I choose to get things done - specifically that I use my Bad Reputation feature as often as I can find a reason (such as openly stealing a bag of salt, and not trying to diffuse a bar fight before it started because I knew I wasn't at risk of arrest for such minor crime as slapping around some punk that talked trash at me, and I used "Do you know who I am?" as a means to determine that the suspicious fellow offering my party help could be trusted, because no one that knows who I am and still wants to risk getting on my bad side is competent enough to consider a threat even if they do plan on a double-cross). [/QUOTE]
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